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<pre>public class <span class="typeNameLabel">SignatureParser</span>
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<div class="block">Parses type signature strings used to identify methods and constructors in input.</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../randoop/reflection/SignatureParser.html#DOT_DELIMITED_IDS">DOT_DELIMITED_IDS</a></span></code>
<div class="block">Regex to match a sequence of identifiers (or <code>&lt;init&gt;</code>) separated by periods.</div>
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<div class="block">Regex for Java identifiers</div>
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<div class="block">Naive regex to match a method signature consisting of a fully-qualified method name followed by
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<div class="block">Parses a fully-qualified signature and returns the corresponding <code>java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject</code>.</div>
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<pre>public static final&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a> ID_STRING</pre>
<div class="block">Regex for Java identifiers</div>
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<pre>public static final&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a> DOT_DELIMITED_IDS</pre>
<div class="block">Regex to match a sequence of identifiers (or <code>&lt;init&gt;</code>) separated by periods. Corresponds
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<pre>private static final&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util.regex">Pattern</a> SIGNATURE_PATTERN</pre>
<div class="block">Naive regex to match a method signature consisting of a fully-qualified method name followed by
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 pattern permits anything.

 <p>Capturing group 1 matches the fully-qualified method name, and capturing group 2 matches the
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<pre>public static&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/AccessibleObject.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect">AccessibleObject</a>&nbsp;parse(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a>&nbsp;signature,
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                              throws <a href="../../randoop/reflection/SignatureParseException.html" title="class in randoop.reflection">SignatureParseException</a></pre>
<div class="block">Parses a fully-qualified signature and returns the corresponding <code>java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject</code>.

 <p>A signature is expected to have the form

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   <li><code>package-name.classname.method-name(argument-list)</code> for a method,
   <li><code>package-name.classname.&lt;init&gt;(argument-list)</code> or <code>package-name.classname(argument-list)</code> for a constructor.
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 <p>where <code>package-name</code> is a period-separated list of identifiers, and <code>argument-list</code> is a comma-separated (spaces-allowed) list of fully-qualified Java raw types.
 Array types have the format <code>element-type[]</code>.</div>
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<dd><code>visibility</code> - the predicate for determining whether the method or constructor is visible</dd>
<dd><code>reflectionPredicate</code> - the predicate for checking reflection policy</dd>
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